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Albert at NewEraVaping sent me a 3ml sample bottle of NewEra’s RY4 for review. The liquid is a very dark caramel color, still transparent but heading down the road toward opaque. It is among the darkest-colored RY4s I’ve vaped. The base is 50/50 PG/VG, and nic strength is 18mg. Tasting was done by dripping into a bonut-modified 1.5 ohm Joye LR306 atty driven by a Buzz Pro set to various voltages from 3.4V to 4.6V, producing power outputs ranging from 7 to 11 watts.
First, the easy part.
Is NewEraVaping RY4 a classic or custom RY4? Custom all the way, without anything suggesting classic formulation.
Now the hard part.
What’s the taste profile? Here’s the description from the NewEra 3ml ordering page for RY4 (each bottle size---3ml, 5ml, 10ml, 20ml, and 60ml---has its own page): “A sweet, nutty flavor with a hint of tobacco.” As it turns out, I don’t agree with that description, as will become obvious momentarily.
The nose of this juice is very slight, but pleasant, with the merest whiff of what my nose wants to call caramel. Upon taking a drag, the inhale is tobacco and nuttiness---and definitely more than just a hint. I found the tobacco very distinctive and quite potent, which is a surprise in an RY4, and (for me) a pleasurable one. This is a rich and smoky tobacco flavor, but it stops short of tasting ashen. The tobacco is wrapped in nuttiness, which is nothing like the “mystery peanut” of a DK-TAB. It’s more like pecan or walnut, or a mixed nut flavor. Deep and dark.
While the vapor is in the lungs, the other flavors in the ensemble emerge, but only in the background, without asserting themselves. Rather than obvious flavors, they seem to add ethereal harmonies, almost like reverb for a guitar or vocal. I don’t claim to know what those other flavorings are, since none identified itself to my palate. I would guess at caramel, but as to whether there is vanilla, I simply can’t tell. Possibly. Or maybe it’s marshmallow. I don’t know. The description says only “sweet,” which is curious.
The curiosity around sweetness lies in its relative absence. The juice in my sample bottle is slightly sweet, but not much. Not only is the NewEra RY4 I vaped not a dessert juice, but it’s actually the least sweet, most tobacco- and nut-dominant RY4 I’ve ever vaped. These three qualities---strong tobacco, distinct nuttiness, and very little sweetness---mark it as unique, and leave NewEra RY4 playing in a league all its own, as an unusual and darkly exotic specimen. For those accustomed to classic RY4s, this juice will come as a jolt, and perhaps an acquired taste. I don’t yet know whether I like it or not, but it has my attention.
With the RY4, Albert also included a 3ml sample bottle of NewEra’s signature tobacco blend, called New Era (which is like the old joke, “The Dept. of Redundancy Dept.”). Although the same dark caramel color as the RY4, the New Era was brighter to my palate, with a slightly fruity sweetness that enlivened it. I might say that New Era is entertaining, while NewEra’s RY4 is deeply meditative and more serious.
If you’re tired of generic RY4 clones, you might try
NewEra RY4. It’s definitely not run-of-the-mill. Many of the RY4s I’ve reviewed since autumn have been custom recipes that pushed the envelope of what an RY4 is or can be, and NewEra RY4 continues that revolution by moving the boundaries further than any RY4 I’ve vaped thus far.
Category Groups: Stronger Tobacco, Nutty, Distinctive (atypical)
Link:
NewEraVaping RY-4
New Info Note: Albert just PM'd me that the
New Era flavor is not only NewEra's signature tobacco blend (as described on the NewEra web site), but is also
"...our own little twist on the RY4." Aha! In my first draft of the review, I wrote that the New Era juice tasted to me more like an RY4 than their RY4 did, but I took out that sentence, thinking that my taste buds must be screwy. Now I know why Albert sent me the New Era sample in the first place, and why my taste buds responded as they did. Also, I can now openly affirm my personal preference for the New Era juice because it's a little brighter and sweeter than the darkly intense RY4. I'll happily include New Era in the Big List and under the same Category Groups as the RY4.
Link:
NewEraVaping New Era
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